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Using OpenGL and performance tools from Apple, Westlake Interactive helps bring Halo, the popular sci-fi epic game, to MacÊOS X in record time.

Documentation: I/O Kit Fundamentals

Documentation: Working With Bluetooth Devices

Documentation: Working With USB Device Interfaces

Documentation: Writing an I/O Kit Device Driver

With ease-of-use breakthroughs in sharing and administration as well as advanced security features, FileMaker Server 7 allows you to share with up to 250 users, improves performance of peer-to-peer sharing, hosts massive amounts of data and lets you administer databases locally or remotely.

Mac OS X  Combined Server (10.3.4) Update 10.3.4

Mac OS X  Server Update 10.3.4

AutoScrubber 1.5 from Jiiva is a file erasing utility, designed to protect users by automatically detecting and permanently erasing files. This new version provides visual feedback when files are being erased. A demo version is available.

CrushFTP 3.4 from Ben Spink is a professional FTP server with virtual servers, ratios, quotas, bandwidth limiters, remote administration, and more. This version allows email events to be setup on a per user basis, adds Explicit SSL/TLS support for all FTP clients supporting FTPS, and adds additional encryption options.

SQL4Manager J 2.8 from InterServices New Media is a professional database tool for web and database developers, administrators and power users. Release 2.8 includes several interface enhancements and supports new features for Oracle 10g, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server and several bug fixes.

WebRev 1.0 from Maxum is a basic web browser, based on Apple's Web Kit technology, that displays the HTML source of the page in a standard Mac text edit box. Website developers can add to or edit their HTML pages, and save them back to the server on the fly. It is offered as free component of iAssist, Maxum's Internet server management system.

Developer Preview 2 of Java 1.4.2 Update 1 is now available to all ADC Members, offering improvements in graphics performance and correctness and a number of bug fixes.

Technical Note: Identifying Java on Mac OS X 

The sources for Darwin 7.4, which corresponds to Mac OS X  10.3.4, are now available.

Mac OS X Update 10.3.4

Mac OS X Combined (10.3.4) Update 10.3.4

Security Update 2004-05-24 (10.3.3)

Security Update 2004-05-24 (10.2.8)

Technical Q&A: Why am I drawing directly to the screen?

Technical Q&A: Developer Tools JBoss and Tomcat Do Not Start After Installing Java 1.4.2 Update

Technical Q&A: Make sure your PPD Plugin calls ppdCloseCompiledPPDFromTicket

Technical Q&A: Clearing the Rendezvous service cache

Technical Q&A: The state of mDNSResponder

Technical Q&A: Mixing AWT/Swing and Cocoa Java

Technical Q&A: Audio Unit Resizing

Technical Q&A: DDR SDRAM ICs for PowerBooks and iBooks that use Memory bus slewing

Technical Q&A: QuickTime movies require a valid graphics port

Technical Q&A: Movie export with AAC or AMR audio formats

Technical Q&A: Generating an NMI Without a Programmer's Switch

Technical Q&A: The Rendezvous Name is not the Rendezvous name

Technical Q&A: Setting the look-and-feel for Swing applications

Technical Q&A: Creating an OpenGl texture from an NSView

Technical Q&A: Avoiding the -42 error with DiscRecording

Technical Q&A: Directories Appear as Volume Aliases

Documentation: Application Architecture

Documentation: Basic Drawing

Documentation: The Drawing Environment

Documentation: Sheets

Documentation: Text System Architecture

Documentation: What Is Cocoa?

Documentation: HeaderDoc Unfettered

Documentation: Software Distribution

NEW
Documentation: Mac OS X Technology Overview

Documentation: Apple Software Design Guidelines

REVISED
Documentation: AppleScript for Mac OS X

Documentation: Core Foundation Reference

Documentation: Launch Time Performance

Documentation: Apple Human Interface Guidelines

Documentation: Screen Saver Reference for Objective-C

Documentation: Adding Search to Your Application (Preliminary)

Tcl/Tk Aqua 8.4.6.1 is the latest binary distribution of the Mac OS X  native port of the Tcl scripting language. It includes the Tk toolkit and 50 popular extensions, such as incrTcl, TclX, Expect, Tcllib, and XOTcl.

For more development tools:
Macintosh Products Guide

Mac OS X  Downloads

Haxial TextEdit 1.61 from Haxial Software is a simple, fast and free editor for Unicode or non non-Unicode plain text files. It includes a Find/Replace function, and a menu for quick access to your favorite documents. The appearance is customizable with skins/schemes and features a new tabbed interface.

Haxial has also released Haxial Organizer 1.5, an information manager including an encrypted databases feature, reminders/alarms, calendar, and world time conversion.

Documentation: Color and Color Management Systems

Technical Q&A: New PPD keywords available in Mac OS X  version 10.3

Technical Q&A: Movie export with AAC or AMR audio formats

easy beat 2.1 from ergonis software is a Mac-only MIDI sequencing application based on QuickTime and CoreAudio. The new export feature lets you bring over songs to GarageBand easily, creating a MIDI front end for GarageBand.

iStabilize 1.0 from Pixlock stabilizes movies with respect to translation, rotation, and zoom. It is a complete movie player with editing features and provides a preview mode where stabilization can be examined without excessive rendering.

MistralMovie 1.0 from Omega Concept is an authoring software for producing interactive QuickTime movies. MistralMovie makes it possible via screens to create an interactive animation in .mov (QuickTime) format by using images, text, sound of the video or VR files. The presentations are usable on CD-ROM or over the Internet via QuickTime Player.

Titlelistconverter 1.8 from Belle Nuit Montage is an utility for Belle Nuit Subtitler to edit and render subtitles in Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Avid MediaComposer and Avid Xpress. This version adds support for the Swedish format FilmText Studio and the French format Power Subtitling.

Cocoa is a powerful, object-oriented software development environment -- included with Mac OS X  -- that features graphical tools, rich frameworks, and a predefined application infrastructure that supports rapid development of sophisticated applications. This five-day course combines lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on training. It introduces the Objective-C language, the Apple integrated development environment (IDE), and the Cocoa frameworks.

Internet Application Development Using WebObjects is a five-day course that teaches application programmers how to quickly build and maintain full-featured web applications. It provides comprehensive, hands-on training using real-world examples that accelerate developers' knowledge of WebObjects.

Advanced WebObjects Development teaches application programmers how to leverage the advanced features of WebObjects. This five-day course places special interest on the powerful data access capabilities and interapplication communication of WebObjects and its elegant application design patterns. With the skills acquired in this course, developers will have the most advanced knowledge of data access techniques and web application design.

WebObjects Development (II)
June 7-11 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UK

Cocoa Bootcamp
June 7-11 in Atlanta, GA

Advanced WebObjects Development
June 21-June 25 in Cupertino, CA

Developing Desktop Applications With Cocoa
July 6-10 in Cupertino, CA

Core Mac OS X  and Unix Bootcamp
July 19-23 in Atlanta, GA

Internet Application Development Using WebObjects
July 26, in Reston, VA
August 2, 2004 in Cupertino, CA

Ongoing: Apache Bootcamp

Ongoing: OpenGL Shading Language Seminars

Ongoing: Apple Training Courses

A special hardware discount program is available to ADC Premier and Select exhibitors at several major trade shows.

NEXPO
June 19-22 in Washington DC

National Education Computing Conference
June 20-23 in New Orleans, LA

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2004
June 28-July 2 in San Francisco, CA
Hardware discounts for Premier and Select exhibitors

ADHOC/MacHack 19
July 21-24 in Dearborn, MI

O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)
July 26-30 in Portland, OR
ADC Members receive a 15% discount, use code:os4adc
Early Bird registration ends June 18

Siggraph
August 3-12, 2004 Los Angeles, CA

Apple Expo, Paris
August 31-September 4

IBC, Amsterdam
September 9-14 O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
October 25-28 in Santa Clara, CA